The serious press has picked up and covered the Tax Justice Network’s new report on the flaws in the UK – Swiss tax deal. The following are some highlights: Swiss-U.K.
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The loopholes which destroy HMRC’s claim that Swiss tax deal will see a £4-7bn Treasury windfall
The following press release was issued by the Tax Justice Network this morning, and I’m proud to be associated with it: UK/Swiss tax deal could see UK lose
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We can crack tax havens open now
A couple of days ago I highlighted a report from Cayman about a meeting of offshore lawyers where it seemed there was widespread agreement that the system of tax information exchange
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Offshore lawyers admit that tax haven claims of transparency are bunkum – as some of us have argued for a long time
Cayman News Service has blown the lid on one of the biggest lies of recent years about tax havens / secrecy jurisdiction. It’s been claimed since 2009 that tax information
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HMRC’s achievement – the legitimisation of tax haven abuse
As Bloomberg reports: Liechtenstein Prime Minister Klaus Tschuetscher said the principality will seek a withholding tax on undeclared German assets in its banks along the
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How to find €1trillion and $1 trillion, at the same time? Easy – just recruit the tax inspectors
Doug Saunders of the Globe and Mail in the USA had an article in his paper at the weekend saying: How do you scrape together
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The UK signs its pernicious Swiss tax deal
From the Treasure Islands blog: a short article as an immediate reaction to the UK-Swiss tax deal. A much longer article, complementing this, will be posted
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Miliband must stop spreading myths about benefit claimants
Tim Nichols of the Child Poverty Action Group wrote this sitting next to me in Liverpool yesterday so I borrow it with his permission from
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The UK Swiss tax deal – not so fast the EU begins to say
I hear rumours from the EU Commission on the UK Swiss tax deal. First rumour is forget the Swiss German deal – it won’t get
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